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Bill	Foster care: sibling placement.	Existing law provides for the placement of dependent children by the juvenile court according to specified procedures. Existing law declares the policy of the Legislature relating to foster care, including that foster care should be a temporary method of care for children and that reunification with the natural parent or parents or another alternate permanent living situation such as adoption or guardianship is more suitable to a child's well-being than is foster care.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 743	California AB 743 (20092010)	bill	Foster care: sibling placement.	enacted	Portantino	9	35	10	2009-02-26	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/bebfc7f7-c561-426d-8f52-263250c316a9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB743	d13ba0af8768c0438fd80450c8c3b213c786772fd05c397ff8cc839dece1728d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 743 (20092010) — Foster care: sibling placement.

Existing law provides for the placement of dependent children by the juvenile court according to specified procedures. Existing law declares the policy of the Legislature relating to foster care, including that foster care should be a temporary method of care for children and that reunification with the natural parent or parents or another alternate permanent living situation such as adoption or guardianship is more suitable to a child's well-being than is foster care.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/11/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/26/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/17/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB743 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 743 PORTANTINO Assembly Third Reading FORMERLY FILE ITEM2 — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB743 Portantino By Wolk — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Human Services. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 743 PORTANTINO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. by unanimous consent, and then be re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-29 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-01-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-01-21 In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-01-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (January 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-01-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-27 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-27 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3902.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-02-11 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-05-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2010-06-10 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-16 Received August 13 pursuant to JR 61(b)(14).
• 2010-08-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-18 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4587.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-19 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)
• 2010-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6376.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-26 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 560, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bebfc7f7-c561-426d-8f52-263250c316a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).